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CEDAR CITY:
THE BUILDING OF A COMMUNITY
( D r . Arrington, L.D. S. Church Historian, delivered the following address at Cedar City, Utah during the 125th anniversary celebration, November, 1976.) The rich historical legacy left by Cedar City's pioneers is one of organizing and working together to build a better community; i t suggests that we can accomplish more as a team working for the good of all than we can as individuals, each pursuing our own goals. In the winter of 1852 Mormon Apostles, Erastus Snow and Franklln D . Richards, were sent to the then remote frontier settlement of Cedar City, Utah to check on the progress of missionaries who for a year had been attempting with little success to develop an iron industry in response to The apostles' report to the a call from Brigham Young. Deseret News on the progress of the mission was optimistic, but indicated that their hopes for the project went well beyond success in the smelting of iron. "We found a Scotch p a r t y , a Welch p a r t y , an English p a r t y , and an American party." they wrote, "and we turned Iron Masters and undertook to put all these parties through the furnace, and run out a party of Saints for building up the Kingdom of God. " In drawing your attention to this episode, I do not wish to imply that the history of Cedar Valley is the history only of the Mormon experience here. Certainly thousands of native American families were born and lived out their lives here long before Henry Lunl led his band of thirty-five iron workers from the base camp at Parowan to Coal Creek 125 years ago. Two hundred years ago the Fathers of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition crossed the valley, describing the native inhabitants and giving Coal Creek i t s first European name. "Senor San Jose." They described i t as "a beautiful valley," noting there was "a very great abundance of pasturage." But having done so they moved on, leaving A quarter of a century later. no imprint upon the land. Spanish traders began the traffic from their settlements in New Mexico to those in California. Their trail left the Sevier River to cross through Fremont Pass into the Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and thence westward through Iron Springs to Mountain Meadows and on down the Sanla Clara to the Virgin before heading across the desert to the Pacific. Their trading in both horses and Indian slaves lasted half a century, transforming the lives of the native inhabitants and greatly depopulating the southern tribes. ' Their route was followed by itinerant trappers in the 1820s and 30s. and by the governmentsponsored exploring party of John C . Fremont in 1 8 4 4 . Two years later the first of a new breed, known to natives a s "Mormonee" appeared when Jefferson Hunt crossed through the Valley from California on his way to a rendezvous with

Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City.

CEDAR CITY:
THE BUILDING OF A COMMUNITY
( D r . Arrington, L.D. S. Church Historian, delivered the following address at Cedar City, Utah during the 125th anniversary celebration, November, 1976.) The rich historical legacy left by Cedar City's pioneers is one of organizing and working together to build a better community; i t suggests that we can accomplish more as a team working for the good of all than we can as individuals, each pursuing our own goals. In the winter of 1852 Mormon Apostles, Erastus Snow and Franklln D . Richards, were sent to the then remote frontier settlement of Cedar City, Utah to check on the progress of missionaries who for a year had been attempting with little success to develop an iron industry in response to The apostles' report to the a call from Brigham Young. Deseret News on the progress of the mission was optimistic, but indicated that their hopes for the project went well beyond success in the smelting of iron. "We found a Scotch p a r t y , a Welch p a r t y , an English p a r t y , and an American party." they wrote, "and we turned Iron Masters and undertook to put all these parties through the furnace, and run out a party of Saints for building up the Kingdom of God. " In drawing your attention to this episode, I do not wish to imply that the history of Cedar Valley is the history only of the Mormon experience here. Certainly thousands of native American families were born and lived out their lives here long before Henry Lunl led his band of thirty-five iron workers from the base camp at Parowan to Coal Creek 125 years ago. Two hundred years ago the Fathers of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition crossed the valley, describing the native inhabitants and giving Coal Creek i t s first European name. "Senor San Jose." They described i t as "a beautiful valley," noting there was "a very great abundance of pasturage." But having done so they moved on, leaving A quarter of a century later. no imprint upon the land. Spanish traders began the traffic from their settlements in New Mexico to those in California. Their trail left the Sevier River to cross through Fremont Pass into the Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and thence westward through Iron Springs to Mountain Meadows and on down the Sanla Clara to the Virgin before heading across the desert to the Pacific. Their trading in both horses and Indian slaves lasted half a century, transforming the lives of the native inhabitants and greatly depopulating the southern tribes. ' Their route was followed by itinerant trappers in the 1820s and 30s. and by the governmentsponsored exploring party of John C . Fremont in 1 8 4 4 . Two years later the first of a new breed, known to natives a s "Mormonee" appeared when Jefferson Hunt crossed through the Valley from California on his way to a rendezvous with